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Richard Pryor: Live On The Sunset Strip [UMD for PSP]

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I first saw this film with a friend and we were both laughing so hard we constantly had to stop the film just to recover. Richard Pryor is absolutely one of the funniest and most honest human beings who ever lived. As far as I'm concerned the only comedian who has even come close is Bernie Mac. But Bernie is tame compared to the full throttle antics of Pryor.

Pryor approaches the show knowing the audience has read a lot about his troubled personal life so he comes out and point blank explains everything. From how he ran down the block after setting himself on fire accidentally, to his troubled marriage, to his trip to Africa and how it changed him.

There's a lot of F-bombs (surprise) so you probably don't want to watch this movie in mixed company. If you're sensitive to "white people are so funny" routines then you should probably get a life. But if you wanna hear about how even the African hares intimidated Pryor ("I ain't never seen a rabbit look at me like that before") or how the lions wanted to eat him and his camera, then this is a movie that will have you laughing so hysterically you'll probably pee in your pants.

Richard Pryor has influenced scores and scores of comedians and theres a good reason why....because hes one of the greats!!! This show which was filmed in Vegas is truly his finest hour. Taped after his infamous freebasing incident, he touches on his cocaine addiction....and as brutal as it was he makes it funny. Also, he talks about gangsters he used to work with and them telling murder stories!! No comedian would dare touch on things like this, and to make these things funny takes TALENT. Of which Pryor has an abundance of.


So if you want a revealing, awe inspiring, provacative and funny comedy show, this is it. Pryors finest hour, the show of himself.

This to me at least can't compare to Richard Pryor live. It's funny...Richard Pryor is a comic genius...but, the jokes didn't keep me rolling as much as Live in Concert.

This is a watershed performance for Richard Pryor. This was filmed shortly after the infamous freebasing fire nearly killed him in the early 1980s. Here, he talks frankly about that incident (the joke with the match is an amazing example of how he could find humor inhis darkest moments) and his need to quit drinking and dope. The tour de force here is the Africa routine. The cologne and body odor gag falls back on some un-PC stereotyping of Africans(of course, PC types aren't gonna watch this anyway), but his announced decision in this piece to never use the N-word again in comedy got a standing-o from me then and still makes me proud of him today. Sadly, this was his last truly great comedic work. From here on in, it would be unbearably bad movies and lackluster comedy like "Here and Now" before he succumbed to MS. So this is truly important as the last great work of Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor. Enjoy.

This movie was outstanding. Richard Prior is the king of comedy. I admire his ability to take some very sad events in his life and make them into hilarious comedy. I highly recommend it despite it being so old. It's still funnier than most of what's available today.

This is definitely one of the funniest stand up performances I have ever seen.Richard Pryor is one of the greatest comedians of all time.It is so sad that he can't talk anymore.He was definitely the most talented storyteller I have ever seen.His stories are SOO funny.He is also a great imitator.His imitations only make his act funnier.A lot of today's comedians can't compare to Richard.He was one of a kind.His routine about Africa is hilarious.Jamie Foxx's terrible routine about Africa can't compare to Richard's.This is definitely the most vulgar stand up routine I have ever seen.So if you have young children,DO NOT let them come CLOSE to ANY of Richard's movies.Otherwise,sit back and enjoy one of the greatst stand up performances ever recorded!

Richard Pryor is the king, no question. He inspired most top comics today, and this stand up shows why. Alot of people forget that most comedy is recycled, and mostly from this man here. It's definitely worth buying, and you'll want his other stand-ups before you know it!

Actually, I'd give this 3 1/2 stars. But it was a little funnier when it came out almost 20 years ago. Some of his stand-up reaches for the F word for laughs, and in that it comes up short. But there are some extremely funny segments, particularly his telling of how he tried to force some mobsters at gunpoint to pay him what they owed him. That and some of his story of his trip to Africa show some sides of Pryor that made him famous. He even dips into a little "Mudbone" - a character he created in the seventies that was an old man from Tupelo Mississippi. It's a good watch if only to see where so many of today's comics, particularly today's black comics, have evolved from. But some of the content, the references he makes, may seem dated. Gen Xers might not get the joke, for example (so what's new?). But it's a quality watch nevertheless. Rent this and Eddie Murphy's first live show he did and it will be a study in great black comedians.

I bought this as part of a two-pack with Dave Chappelle. Unfortunately, I watched Pryor first. It was so funny with almost constant laughter, that it ruined the Chappelle DVD for me. Chappelle (who is great on his TV show), just fell flat after watching the Pryor DVD. If you buy the two-pack, watch Chappellle as the "opening act," maybe it'll seem funny that way. But definitely save Pryor as the "headline" act & watch it last, he just can't be beat. Pryor was a real innovator, funny, insightful, honest, & what a great job he did here!

The producers of this film, evidently thinking people weren't going to recognize what was funny in a Richard Pryor stand-up act, all but butchered a good performance by *overdubbing* conspicuous applause and crowd noises at odd moments and frequently cutting to shots of the audience, obviously shot at different times, and inserted at random. When listening to an amazing stand-up comedian as Pryor, the last thing you want is for the camera to stray off the stage...